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THE ORLOFF SERVICE
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF EDME-PIERRE BALZAC, PARIS, 1771
Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER SECOND-COURSE DISHES
MARK OF EDME-PIERRE BALZAC, PARIS, 1771
Each shaped circular with reeded border and engraved with Russian Imperial arms, marked underneath: charge, date-letter (H) and maker; on rim: decharge for objects going abroad (cow); engraved and stamped with inventory numbers 86 and 76 and further marked for 1784, St. Petersburg hallmarks and assay master HM; with assay scrape
11 1⁄8 in. (28.2 cm.) diameter
16 oz. 4 dwt. (505 gr.)
The arms are for Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796).
MARK OF EDME-PIERRE BALZAC, PARIS, 1771
Each shaped circular with reeded border and engraved with Russian Imperial arms, marked underneath: charge, date-letter (H) and maker; on rim: decharge for objects going abroad (cow); engraved and stamped with inventory numbers 86 and 76 and further marked for 1784, St. Petersburg hallmarks and assay master HM; with assay scrape
11 1⁄8 in. (28.2 cm.) diameter
16 oz. 4 dwt. (505 gr.)
The arms are for Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796).
Provenance
Empress Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796).
Gifted to Count Gregory Orloff (1734-1783) in 1772.
Reacquired by Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1784 and by descent in the Imperial collections to TSar Nicolas II (1868-1918) until 1917.
Later sold by the Soviet government.
Gifted to Count Gregory Orloff (1734-1783) in 1772.
Reacquired by Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1784 and by descent in the Imperial collections to TSar Nicolas II (1868-1918) until 1917.
Later sold by the Soviet government.
Literature
Baron A. de Foelkersam, Inventaire de L'Argenterie conservée dans les Gardes-Meubles des Palais Impériaux, St. Petersburg, 1907, vol. II, listed pp. 86 and one example illus. vol. I, pl. 32.
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Charlotte Young
Associate Director, Specialist